Three Sisters - Bridewell Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
SEDOS theatre company is presenting Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at The Bridewell Theatre – from February 28 to March 3, 2012.
Three Sisters is a tragic, funny, but also frightening play in which Chekhov creates a world of ambivalence and contradiction, where nostalgia mixes with anger, where ritual is overwhelmed by chaos, and where tragedy imposes itself in a burst of desperate laughter.
Four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater after the death of their father, an army general. They focus their dreams on returning to Moscow, a city remembered through the eyes of childhood as the capital of complete happiness and fulfillment.
Anton Chekhov died in 1904 yet his plays have never been more popular, suggesting he speaks as clearly to our age as he did to his own. He never gave a name to the small town, drowned in sadness and broken hearts; perhaps it is closer to home than we would like to think.
SEDOS’ version is translated and given a modern make-over by award-winning author of Vincent in Brixton, Nicholas Wright, through an arrangement with Nick Hern Books.,
Roger Beaumont, making his directorial debut with SEDOS, directs a cast that includes Emily Lake, Aurora Bowkett, Claire Boynton, James Saunders, Jill Ruane, Anthony Green, Ed O’Shaughnessy, Bernard Doogan, Simon Roberts, Richard Watkins, Andrew Silverman, Paul Isaacs, Bob Hough, Alison Liney, Ruth Anthony, Ivona Klemensova and Oliver Cox.
Produced by Bronia Kupczyk, Three Sisters is designed by Phil Lindley, with costumes by Abigale Lewis and lighting by Robin Snowdon.
Tickets: £12.50, £10 concessions – available online at www.sedos.co.uk
Times: 7.30pm, Saturday matinee (March 3) 2.30pm.
Special nights:
Gala Night – Friday, March 2: tickets £15, £12.50 – includes a Kir Royal, a show program and a late bar.
Charity Night – Wednesday, February 29 (50% of proceeds donated to Mousetrap Theatre Projects, Sedos Charity of the Year).
Q & A Night – Thursday, March 1 after the show.
Saturday matinee with Tea and Cake – Saturday, March 3 (ticket includes a cup of tea and some cake).